.I think it's a great season/time to read books - sitting under a tree experiencing cool breeze! Hehehehe

So shall we start listing now?

 

Hey maven - Good to see you here. Mercilessly start bothering you liver so that we can hear more from you! ;-) Hope all is well, including your academics!

yacc - I thought about starting "Love in the time of Cholera" but picked "The life of Pi" instead. I bet Gabriel has given equal justice to "Love in the time of Cholera".

So many people putting in their lists, gives option to others.

I am also reading "Eleven Minutes" by Paulo Coelho although I have not been able to go beyond few chapters. I hope to finish it in two weeks,  as I expect myself to be waiting more in stop lights. Ya, I read books while I drive. DWI or DWR?

I am looking for some Hindu texts that can help me build my argument that Nepal can claim on the copyright/IPR of Yoga. As far as possible, I want to say just "NO" to India.  I want to undo everything that have happened through IPR global regime. I want to claim yoga on behalf of Nepal as Hindu Indigenous knowledge and Nepal's intellectual property. I want to slap Bikram Yoga. He has copyrighted many postures of ancient yoga and some breathing exercises under existing IPR. Nepal remained a Hindu country throughout her history as we know. What if we can bring Agastya Muni ( He Agastya Muni...) as our Yoga originator. Patanjali or Agastya muni? will be initial my RQ. Just working on Primary resources. Hard job.  I have found many Yoga postured images of Agastya muni in Kathmandu. Yoga Dakshinmurti....Nepal should claim on Yoga, now a multi-billion dollar transnational, global  business which is getting a franchisee of moguls like Bikram choudhury starting from downtown Los Angeles.
If any of you've knowledge on these issues to share with me....I would appreciate

Hamlet.

but nobody wants to help me.

 

 

 

 

Guest4, Thats by far the most amazing thing i heard on this forum. May be i should give it a try! : )

Yes , Flip_Flop. I am seeing high chances of being an abstainer now. :D

I want some experts thoughts on my previous post. Pls...I would appreciate.

"I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" by Tucker Max....Must read for guys.

"Eleven Minutes" - The theme revolves around the "love". Does this book really trigger minds?

yacc - For a moment I thought "Pi" was all about 3.14, instead happened to be someone's intriguing story!

"The Broker" by John Grisham is on the fire at the moment! :-)

just finished : double agent WEB Griffin

have my hands on
1. 1634: BALTIC WAR and
2. SPY BY NATURE

I am reading "Learn Hindi in 7 days".

deshbhaktanepali..
good idea.

next step, we need to learn how to wear that dhoti (O: as well what say you

Is there any suggested reading or video on youtube to teach wearing dhoti...I think that is really essential now....

hmm I read the following books
Fight Club ( a masterpiece must read hehe)
A Child called it
the lost child
the da Vince code (was way better than i thought)
a boy in stripped pajamas
the new boy
now am reading the rant so far so good =)

deshbhaktanepali.. i wish ur dream of wearing a dhoti will never come true coz  yu hate to be indian.... see it though urself wearing a glass...

well finished with ...  lady macbeth....

now reading dead heat by  joel c. rosenberg

I am about to finish dead heat..

"The Last Lecture" by Randy pausch (both the video and the book version) - An inspirational.

A tribute to the man who outnumbered thousands to one!

 

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner

Still can’t fathom how I could've let this book slide off my reading list.  Am glad I have it now.  Just look at the Chapters and the economic application to modern day conventional wisdom...Awesome:

Chapter 1: What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?
Here the authors explore the beauty of incentives, as well as their dark side: cheating.

Chapter 2: How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents?
Argues that nothing is more powerful than information, especially when its power is abused.

Chapter 3: Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?
The most interesting topic of all.  After all, the main researcher into this is a Dhoti guy.  Here he shows that conventional wisdom is often found to be a web of fabrication, self-interest, and convenience.

Chapter 4: Where Have All the Criminals Gone?
In which the facts of crime are sorted out from the fictions.

Chapter 5: What Makes a Perfect Parent? 
All angles are viewed and comes forth a pressing question: do parents really matter?

Chapter 6: Would a Roshanda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?
In which the authors weigh the importance of a parent's first official act-naming

 

Next book I’d write about would be Confessions of An Economic Hitman by John Perkins…Another great book!!

 

i am reading MY LIFE by Bill Clinton
pretty good book till now

Hello Everyone..Flip-flop,Rocky, thapaji!!I am reading sajha threads after so long...I have just finished "The Kite Runner""..Very nice book...

--PowerGal

I wish to have "Arresting God in Kathmandu" by Samrat Upadhyaya ,,, but havent got hold of it.

 

True to the Samsara's words, here's his review on perhaps the best conspiracy theory book he's read so far: Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins

 

Confessions of an Economic Hitman (for shorts I'll call it CoaEH) is supposedly the real life events of John Perkins, an economic-development cosultant with Chas T. Main under the guise of being an Economic Hitman for the NSA.  This book could've been similar to the warped theories of Chuck Barris, creator of The Gong Show in the movie Confessions of a Dangerous Mind where both authors are covert agents for the govt under the guise of being regular joes in a foreign land. 

CoaEH was an eye-opener to modern day world events that had its seeds sown during/after WWII. For all you developmental economics freaks out there wondering why the World bank/IMF development models never seem to work in the Less Developed Countries (LDCs), this book will sum up what academicians have been speculating and unsuccessfully trying to prove for decades...Enuff of blaming the corruption, incentives, political instability, etc...The models used by these economic advisors to get loans from the IMF for the LDCs itself were bogus.  A deception in the making larger than a gadzillion Enrons, Bear Stearns, sub-prime and whatever market crashes we've had so far.

This book is a must read for all young economists. And while at it go ahead and draw a parallel to the economic development environment in Nepal...an eerie resemblance!  It left me wondering "Is Economic Development a good thing? What are its costs to society? Why/How people consciously sell their souls to make loans to LDCs which they know beforehand can never be paid back (millions therefore succumb to poverty related causes)? Because of the US' foreign economic policies, what events may transpire here, say, within the next 10 years?" and the questions go on and on...

All in all, John Perkins is da man: A real-life pen and paper wielding James Bond...And they still say economics is for geeks???